Venezuelan election could lead to a seismic shift in politics or give President Maduro 6 more years

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A quarter of a century after the paratrooper turned left-wing icon Hugo Chávez was democratically elected in 1998, opinion polls suggested the comandante’s strongman successor, Nicolás Maduro, was facing possible defeat after presiding over one of the worst peacetime economic collapses in modern history.
Guardian
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As his supporters celebrated, downcast opposition voters waited to hear from Gonzalez Urrutia and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.
Hürriyet Daily News
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Maduro, 61, won a third six-year term at the helm of the once wealthy petro-state where GDP dropped by 80 percent in a decade, pushing more than seven million of its 30 million citizens to emigrate.
Daily Tribune
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Venezuelans headed to the polls on Sunday to vote in a presidential election in which incumbent President Nicolas Maduro was said to have secured reelection against rival Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia.
Deutsche Welle

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